Reise der Hoffnung = Umud'a Yolculuk / ein Film von Xavier Koller.

Haydar, a Kurdish farmer in Turkey, receives a postcard from his cousin in Switzerland describing that country as paradise. He sells his animals and land for the journey and convinces his wife, Meryem, to leave Turkey. At the last moment, they decide to take along their son, Mehmet Ali. They pay smu...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Swiss film collection.
Corporate Authors: Warner Home Video (Firm)
Columbus Film AG
Other Authors: Koller, Xavier
Çiçekoğlu, Feride
Sürer, Nur
Çobanoğlu, Necmettin
Sivas, Emin
Okay, Yaman
Akbaş, Erdinç, 1945-
Gnädinger, Mathias, 1941-
Schönherr, Dietmar, 1926-2014
Language:Turkish
Italian
German
English
French
Portuguese
Spanish
Language and/or Writing System:
Originally in Turkish, Italian, German, and Schweizerdeutsch; subtitles available in English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Published: Zürich : [Germany] : Columbus Film AG ; Warner Home Video, [2005], ©2005.
Series:Swiss film collection.
Subjects:
Refugees > Switzerland > Drama.
Kurds > Switzerland > Drama.
Kurds.
Refugees.
Switzerland.
Feature films.
Drama.
Genre:
Drama.
Feature films.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Umud'a Yolculuk. [Parallel title]
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
Haydar, a Kurdish farmer in Turkey, receives a postcard from his cousin in Switzerland describing that country as paradise. He sells his animals and land for the journey and convinces his wife, Meryem, to leave Turkey. At the last moment, they decide to take along their son, Mehmet Ali. They pay smugglers to get them into Italy, where Mehmet Ali wins over a truck driver who drives them to the Swiss border. There they are rejected because they have no visas. With other Turkish people, they begin to walk across the Alps. They get lost in the snow. Finally, they are rescued but Mehmet Ali dies.
Note:Originally released as a motion picture, 1990.
Videorecording.
Call Number:PN1995.9.F67 R44 2005 Region 2 PAL VideoDVD
Awards:Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, 1991.
Credits:Director of photography, Elemer Ragalyi ; editor, Galip Iyitanir ; music, Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, Arild Andersen ; screenwriter, Xavier Koller with Feride Çiçekoğlu.
System Details:DVD, Region 2; 16:9; Dolby Digital. PAL format: Not compatible with some American DVD players or NTSC-only systems.
Cast:
Nur Sür̈er, Necmettin, Çobanğlu, Emin Sivas, Yaman Okay, Erdinç Akbaş, Mathias Gnädinger, Dietmar Schönherr.